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Title: The Queensland Unemployed Workers Bill of 1919
Author/Creator: Quirk, Victor
Institution: The University of Newcastle. Research Division, Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE)
Description: This paper discusses the political resistance mounted in opposition to the Queensland Unemployed Workers Bill of 1919, a 'Right to Work' measure intended to establish full employment. This episode reveals the emergence of a strategy for preserving unemployment despite the enfranchisement of working people.
Relation: Labour Underutilisation, Unemployment and Underemployment incorporating the 11th Path to Full Employment Conference and 16th National Conference on Unemployment. Labour Underutilisation, Unemployment and Underemployment incorporating the 11th Path to Full Employment Conference and 16th National Conference on Unemployment: Proceeedings Refereed Papers (Newcastle, N.S.W. 3-4 December, 2009) p. 259-276
Relation: http://e1.newcastle.edu.au/coffee
Date: 2009
Publisher: Centre of Full Employment and Equity, University of Newcastle
Keyword(s): Unemployed Workers Bill (1919); Queensland; full employment; unemployment; political resistance
Resource Type: conference paper
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/920008
Identifier: ISBN:9780980603460

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